Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature

✍ Scribed by James Olney

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1389
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality.

Originally published in 1974.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction and Methodology
I. African Autobiography and the Non-African Reader
II. The Children of Gikuyu and Mumbi
III. "Ces Pays Lointains"
IV. Love, Sex, and Procreation
V. Pornography, Philosophy, and African History
VI. Politics, Creativity, and Exile
Anti-Conclusion
Bibliography
Index